lifestyle, food, fashion

lifestyle, food, fashion

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Home made crunchy











      • Easy honeycomb candy bars made at home



        • 1/4 cup sugar

        • 2 tbsp. honey
        • 1 tbsp. water
        • 1 tsp. baking soda
        • 100g chocolate
        Method
        1. In a heavy bottomed, small sauce pan combine the sugar, honey and water.
        2. Over low heat dissolve the sugar and turn to medium heat and bring the mixture to boil until it reaches a caramel color or it has reached the hard crack temperature of 150C/300F.
        3. Remove from heat and gently stir to help the bubbles settle down.
        4. Now add the baking soda, keep stirring as this little experiment unfolds and then pour the contents onto wax paper or parchment paper.
        5. Let cool and then crack into pieces.
        6. Melt the chocolate in a water bath, then drop honeycomb pieces into it to coat, remove with 2 forks and let the access drip of. Place on paper until dry.

        Enjoy !

Friday, 26 December 2014

No egg Muffins






INGREDIENTS
Batter:
2 apples, peeled, in small pieces
1 cup grated carrot (1-2 carrots)
1 ripe banana, mashed (the browner the better)
1/4 cups vegetable oil
1/4 cups low fat milk , soy milk or almond milk
1/4 cups sugar
2 t. pure vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 t. baking powder
Topping:
3 T. sugar
2 t. ground cinnamon
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a standard size 12 muffin tin or line with paper cups; set aside.
To make the batter, place the  apple, grated carrot and mashed banana in a bowl and stir to combine.
Measure in the remaining batter ingredients and mix well. Spoon evenly into the muffin cups. In a small bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon for the topping, then sprinkle evenly over top of the muffins.
Place tin  in oven and bake 20-25 minutes. Remove from oven and let it cool complete ! very important !

Enjoy it ! 


Saturday, 13 December 2014

Santa claus

Every year in december  he comes out of the closet with a lot of presents , my very own Santa Claus




Made by me , porcelain Santa Claus.

Friday, 21 November 2014

Mr pirat

For sale 

 Mr Pirat is made of grey organic cotton , meet his other friends on my blog !







more info about the pillows 

lopesteresa@live.be

Biscotti



These biscotti are made with pistache nuts and some cramberries
traditional italian biscotti















These are delicious and they stay good for many days

 

What you need ,



 

1 ½ cup unsalted butter

¾ cup granulated sugar

 ¾ cup light brown sugar
 2 eggs, lightly beaten

 ¼ cup anisette liqueur

 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour

 ½ tsp baking powder

 ½ tsp baking soda

 ½ cup sliced almonds. or pistache , pinenuts


 Preheat oven to 180°. Lightly grease baking pan with  butter. Cream together the butter and sugars. Add the eggs and anisette. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and baking soda into a separate, large bowl. Mix together the butter and flour mixtures until well mixed and a dough forms. Fold in the almonds. Divide the dough into 2 equal parts and form each into an oval-shaped mound about 5 cm high. Place the dough mounds on a baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes. take them from the oven and Slice the mounds lengthwise into small slices Return to the oven and bake for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool slightly.


Enjoy it